bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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smoke tree - greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor

The smoketree is a rare endemic tree with a relictual distribution comprising three localized populations: (1) on the Ozark Plateau in Arkansas and Missouri with a few scattered stations in eastern Oklahoma, (2) from the southern Cumberland Plateau in northeastern Alabama and adjacent Tennessee and Georgia, and (3) on the Edward's Plateau of south-central Texas (Little 1977; Davis & Graves 2016).

But there are other, almost as impressive sights: such as the lone birch at the top of Glen Finglas, so worked upon by the wind that it's nearly horizontal, and yet thrives; or the American smoketree at Kew in its gorgeous autumn glad rags.

This article is based on a longer monograph, "Our Hopeful Future: Creating a Sustainable Global Society," which is available for $10 ($12 outside the United States) from Maya Porter, Porter McGinn Associates, 11828 Smoketree Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854.

The project also includes installation of new motorized valves in valve vaults at the intersection of Smoketree and Arizona Highway 95, modifications to an existing lift station, including a new hydropneumatic tank and associated appurtenances at the Mulberry Wastewater Treatment Plant, and a packaged reuse booster pump station at the Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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